About one in four people have to go back to have corrective surgery after their implant, new research shows.
- Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
People with back pain are increasingly accessing emergency health care that isn’t required and may leave them worse off.
Musk has recommended people experiencing severe neck and back pain should consider disc replacement surgery. Here’s what the research says.
The most common complaint among people with chronic pain is low back pain. Here’s what treatments do – and don’t – work.
Opioids are the one of the most prescribed pain-relief for people with low back and neck pain. But new research shows they don’t effectively relieve low back or neck pain and can result in worse pain.
We researched how much difference opioids like codeine, oxycodone or morphine make to osteoarthritis pain. We found they helped about as much as paracetamol. Yet they are far more dangerous.
Professional societies of doctors, surgeons or physiotherapists are more likely to recommend against treatments provided by others, our new research shows.
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